We left Stone Mountain during the first week of January; our first stop was at an Ocean Canyon property for a few days. Boy it was cold there. It was so cold that we had to leave our faucet dripping so the hose would not freeze. Jim cracked the valve at the spigot and I put a bucket underneath it to catch the water. Our neighbor was not so lucky - he decided to let his shower drip and his hose froze and he had water all over the inside of his motorhome.

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We then headed south to meet up with Bill & Julie in Crystal River for a week. Our week up in Florida, we took our time heading to Texas where we were going to be working in the Activity Department of Yogi Bear Jellystone Park in Waller, Texas beginning in March.

This was a very hectic summer for us. Working as Activity Directors was time consuming and took up all of our time. We usually worked more than 8 hours a day and got two days off a week, which we used for laundry, grocery shopping, and cleaning. There was not much time for sightseeing.

In May Gayle's Dad got very ill and ended up in hospice, so we left the park and drove to Ohio to see him. On the way Bill called us to say they did not know if Dad would still be alive by the time we got there so had us talk to him, which they also had Josh and Jacklyn do as well. We got there on a Saturday night and drove with Pat, Bill & Cindy to the hospice where Dad was. Mike, Diane & Kimberly came as well. I held his hand for hours and just sat and talked to him. He was almost comatose; his eyes did not blink and his body was on shut down (no food or drink). The nurse did say that even though he could not answer or talk, he was able to hear us and knew we were all there. We all prayed and talked. We stayed for about 4 hours and by the time we got back to Dad's house, the nurse had called to let us know that Dad has passed. It took us 5 days to drive from Texas to Ohio, but he waited until we got there, maybe because Bill kept telling him that I was coming.

We were going to stay and help go through Dad's house to get rid of all the paperwork that had been stacking up, and also his clothes. After spending a few days filling garbage bags of old paperwork that had been laying around the house, we talked to Mike about it; and he ended up coming to the house and picking up all the bags to take them back to his house to check on what we were throwing away. No trust; and that really got me angry and we ended up leaving and letting Mike (and Diane) have their way with the stuff in Dad's house.

We had also been getting almost daily texts from Kathleen back at Yogi Bear asking when we were coming back, and so that is what we ended up doing. Jim kept asking me if I wanted to go back to Yogi Bear, and I said Yes.

​So, we ended up back at Yogi Bear Jellystone as official Activity Directors. This is when our summer really got busy and hectic. We were very busy there, through Halloween and Christmas. We were supposed to leave after Halloween, but were asked to stay through the end of the year, which we did. That ended up going into 2015 and we were still working there into 2015.